1.   Anyone who wants to weigh in on this contentious topic would profit from a reading of The Slave Trade.

2.   A panel that ended the general session tackled the contentious topic of effective agency building.

3.   Fees are always a contentious topic, and there is not even agreement on whether they are rising or falling.

4.   Legislators raised other contentious topics from peacekeeping missions to new rounds of base closures, but did not try to reach a consensus on how to address them.

5.   McCain said that beyond the drug and income-tax issues, only a few contentious topics remained.

6.   Sex has proved the most contentious topic.

7.   Since his days as U.S. attorney in Atlanta, Barr has not been shy about seeking publicity on contentious topics.

8.   Some highly contentious topics are best broached in print so that all arguments are fairly and fully expressed.

9.   The survey and questions of how to prevent sexual abuse are likely to be a contentious topic at the convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts in November.

10.   Abortion has become a contentious topic in the United States with the rise of the Christian right, which would like to ban the procedure completely.